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Show Softball Rules The News will publish each week, one or more official soft-ball soft-ball rules, until the entire' set of 1946 rules has been published. Extra copies, as they are published, pub-lished, will be available to subscribers. sub-scribers. RULE 10 Fairly Delivered Ball. A fairly delivered ball is one pitched by the pitcher while standing stand-ing in his position and facing the batsman that passes over any portion por-tion of the home plate before touching the ground, not lower than the batsman's knees nor higher than his shoulder. " For every sucH fairly delivered ball the umpire shall call one strike. Other cases in which the umpire shall call a strike are: . batsman without its touching his bat. A foul hit ball not caught on the fly unless the batsman has two strikes. ' ' ' ' A pitched ball at which the batsman bats-man strikes but misses and which, touches any part of his person.' "' A foul tip, held by the catcher, while standing within the lines of his position.' RULE 11 Unfairly De-livered ball. An unfairly delivered ball is a ball delivered to " the batsman by the pitcher while standing in his position and facing the batsman that does not pass over any portion por-tion of the home plate between the batsman's knees and shoulders, or that touches "the ground before passing home plate, unless struck at by the batsman. "" For every unfairly delivered ball the umpire shall call one ball. Other cases in which the umpire um-pire shall call a ball are: ' An illegally pitched ball unless the batsman hits 'such a pitched, ball fairly. (An illegally pitched" ball struck at and missed, or fouled, and an illegally' pitched ball at which the batsman does not strike, shall be called a ball). ' A ball rolled along the ground, or dropped, by" the pitcher while in' the pitching position. A ball shall be called each time the pitcher delays the game by failing fail-ing to deliver the ball to the batsman bats-man for a longer period than 20 seconds, except that at the commencement com-mencement of each inning, or when a pitcher relieves another, the pitcher may occupy one minute in delivering not to exceed five balls to the catcher or an infielder, during dur-ing which time play shall be suspended. sus-pended. A ball shall be called each time the pitcher makes any motion to pitch without immediately delivering deliver-ing the ball to the bat. |